Principal Mobile Engineer

Canada
Remote
Posted Oct 28, 2026
1 position

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Employment type: Full-time
Experience level: Lead · 10+ years
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Application method: Apply on LinkedIn (LinkedIn sign-in required)

Job summary

Lead mobile projects from conception through deployment, shaping platform direction and driving cross-team architecture decisions and initiatives. Establish AI-driven software development lifecycle standards, elevate engineering quality through reviews and mentoring, and align stakeholders across product, data, security, and infrastructure teams.

Job details

Principal Mobile Engineer Remote (Canada) Full Time Job Description: This job posting is for an existing, active vacancy and we are looking to hire Principal Mobile Engineer as fulltime hiring as Remote (Canada), with strong background in mobile application development and architecture, with hands on coding experience. The candidate should be comfortable to work in PST Time zone. Role Overview We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Mobile Engineer in Montreal, QC with strong background in mobile application development and architecture, with hands on coding experience. This role requires a blend of technical expertise and leadership capabilities to drive mobile projects from conception to deployment. Required Technical Skills: Swift/iOS and Kotlin/Android expertise React Native or Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile architecture patterns and performance optimization Offline-first applications and release engineering Mobile CI/CD and testing practices Retail or eCommerce experience AI SDLC Required Leadership Skills 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant tenure at Staff/Principal level. Drive cross-team technical decisions, platform direction, and multi-team initiatives (architecture alignment, trade-off resolution, execution). Define and scale AI-driven SDLC standards, including tools, guardrails, and automation patterns. Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development (e.g., Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) to deliver production systems; able to articulate workflow impact and guardrails. Strong experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems (APIs, data pipelines, event driven systems, high-scale platforms). Proven cross-org leadership—driving architecture, standards, and platform initiatives across multiple teams. Elevate engineering quality through code reviews, architecture reviews, and mentoring senior engineers. Strong engineering fundamentals in code quality, testing, CI/CD, and observability while maintaining delivery velocity. Effective communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment without formal authority. Experience collaborating across product, data, security, and infrastructure teams. Track record of documenting and scaling architectural decisions and organizational learnings. Experience working with distributed teams (US, China, LATAM).

What you’ll do

Requirements

Requires 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant Staff or Principal-level tenure, with hands-on expertise in Swift/iOS and Kotlin/Android and experience with mobile architecture, CI/CD, testing, and release engineering. Candidates should have strong distributed-systems experience, practical use of AI-assisted development tools, cross-organizational leadership skills, and the ability to collaborate across distributed teams.